I didn’t like the original Kick-Ass movie, and I would have liked Kick-Ass 2 if they didn’t have that awful Hit-Girl subplot which I felt against her character and what made her fun.

I think that the series needs that Millar-esque tone of raunch, insanity, and humor that the second movie was able to capture more capably. The first was just silly and conventional. Since it’s Matthew Vaughn again, I don’t have much hope.

Overall, I just don’t like his fit with Millar adaptations. I’m among the minority here who liked the second Kingsman more than the original. The first Kingsman I felt, like Kick-Ass’s first movie, did a lot to strip away what made the comic so unique and enjoyable. The second was aided in being taken in a radically new direction.

He’s still got a hand in all this as producer, so I hope your optimism is right and that it’s a very loose hand.
I love the current Patience Lee arc and I think it would benefit from keeping with the Millar atmosphere. Not his silliness.

And yes, spectacular. The director has been working with Jackson for decades, and he has a great sense of design. I’m very interested in how this turns out.

Yeah, the design work looks amazing (if a bit Final Fantasy).

I still think this could be a game-changer. This kind of story has been done in anime and in comics and in novels, but if they manage to do it in a movie successfully for the first time, it’ll open up a few interesting doors.

I enjoyed the first Kick-Ass and thought the first Kingsman was pretty awesome. Hated the second Kick-Ass and thought Kingsman 2 just went way too zany and cartoon like with it’s action. It basically took what I enjoyed about the first one and dialed it all up well past ridiculous. Julianne Moore was great, though.

All in all, though, this is fine but I’m way more interested in what Netflix is going to do with the properties they own.